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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 8, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-50180

CVE-2024-50180

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fbdev: sisfb: Fix strbuf array overflow

The values of the variables xres and yres are placed in strbuf. These variables are obtained from strbuf1. The strbuf1 array contains digit characters and a space if the array contains non-digit characters. Then, when executing sprintf(strbuf, "%ux%ux8", xres, yres); more than 16 bytes will be written to strbuf. It is suggested to increase the size of the strbuf array to 24.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

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